Text from back of image: "When he was forced to make landing in Bondy Forest, near Paris, France when a gasoline leak developed, while on projected flight from Paris to Indo-China, with mail, Dieudonne Costes' plane struck a telegraph pole and was...

Text from back of image: 'Flying the same plane in which Clarence Chamberlin crossed the Atlantic, Captain J. E. Boyd, took off from Floyd Bennett Airport in New York City on June 11th on a projected non-stop good will flight to Port-Au-Prince,...

Artist's conception of a solar still which may some day permit tapping of oceans or brackish inland sources for additional supplies of fresh water. Salt water flows from pipe in foreground into shallow troughs covered with plastic film canopies,...

The ultracentrifuge used at the Experimental Station to determine molecular weights of colloidal materials such as proteins, cellulose and rubber. The upper half of the housing is shown at the top of the picture. Observations are made through the...

Text from back of photo: "Three Soviet fliers and a Soviet plane designer, are shown in Moscow, before taking off on a projected 7,000-mile non-stop flight across the wastes of Siberia. The plane was a huge Soviet-built monoplane, with fuel tanks...

The electron microscope is one of the research chemist's most valuable aids to discovery. This one at the DuPont Company's Experimental Station is capable of 100,000 diameter magnification. The image is projected, for direct visual examination, on...

Text from back of image: 'Sigmund Levanevsky, (left), Soviet air hero, who announced today, (July 17), that he hopes to leave Los Angeles July 25th, on a projected trail-blazing flight to Moscow, via Alaska. With him will be Victor I. Levchenko,...

Text from back of image: "Blaine M. Tuxhorn is shown with his synchronized ejector 'cannon' by which he and a co-pilot expect to load fuel on a Barling NB-3 monoplane while in full flight and remain aloft more than 60 hours. The container held by...